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by rubeng 11y ago
Bidsketch | https://bidsketch.com | Portland, OR | REMOTE Bidsketch is a profitable bootstrapped SaaS (subscription web app) that customers use to create client proposals. I launched Bidsketch working nights and weekends, and ev
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Failing to Get Traction and (Almost) Giving up on the Road to $1k in Revenue(extendslogic.com)
5 points by rubeng 13y ago|0 comments
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by rubeng 13y ago
It's still early but haven't had any issues so far.
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by rubeng 13y ago
Totally agree with Alex. This is something that I (and most other SaaS owners I know) look at regularly. And it's not always easy.
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by rubeng 13y ago
Glad you liked it! You're right; I could've used a lot of these strategies when I was hiring inside of a big co.
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Hiring High Quality Developers on a Bootstrapper’s Budget(extendslogic.com)
10 points by rubeng 13y ago|3 comments
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by rubeng 14y ago
Not a prob! :) These were single people with a limited budget. I do have a Bidsketch customer that almost falls into this category (and I helped find a dev), but I didn't include him since he runs a small SEO shop where he's used to outsour
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by rubeng 14y ago
You know, after I helped them out with picking a developer, they didn't ask for help once development started. I offered to help but they either didn't run into problems or didn't come to me when they did. These are the ones that were succe
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by rubeng 14y ago
I'm a big fan of outsourcing development as that was the route I chose to launch my product ( http://www.bidsketch.com ) in a much shorter time than it took when I was doing everything myself. I outsourced the early code and design. Quality
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Google's Next Penguin Update Will Be "Jarring & Jolting"(seroundtable.com)
2 points by rubeng 14y ago|0 comments
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by rubeng 14y ago
Love that talk, thanks. I do have some ideas for tests I want to run in the future when I get back into optimization mode.
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by rubeng 14y ago
I tested increasing prices without touching anything else and it resulted in significant revenue increase but I hit a local maximum as the segmenting was off and value communication needed to be improved. The right branding with the wrong p
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by rubeng 14y ago
Sorry about that. What happened when you submitted the form? Did you receive a confirmation message saying that you'll receive an email? If so, you might want to check your spam folder in case it made its way there for some reason. Two reas
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by rubeng 14y ago
I had more people signing up for the higher tier plans when I a/b tested the plan names. Don't remember what the numbers were exactly but it was interesting to see behavior change because of the plan names.
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by rubeng 14y ago
I grandfathered existing customers in so they still have their existing plans.
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by rubeng 14y ago
Should be good now, thanks!
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by rubeng 14y ago
Sorry, just restarted the service. Thanks! I need to add monitoring to that service since it's now past the experiment stage (was being tested against a video at one time).
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by rubeng 14y ago
Author here. Thanks for mentioning that; I've gone ahead and added a link.
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by rubeng 14y ago
Ryan: I'd love to hear specifics about the problems you're encountering with being remote at this size? I have a remote team and we're growing but I would like to stay that way for as long as we can so I'm interested in hearing about some o
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by rubeng 14y ago
Like anything else, the more you do it the easier it gets. I have two part time developers working for me (one from Nepal and the other from Ukraine. They're both great. Much better than the 80-90k/year developers I worked with when I had a
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What I Learned From Increasing My Prices(extendslogic.com)
7 points by rubeng 14y ago|0 comments
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by rubeng 14y ago
I've tried both ways and saw an immediate increase in paid conversions when asking for cc info upfront (8x increase). I've talked to several founders that have tried both ways and all but one saw a significant increase as well. The number o
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by rubeng 15y ago
I did not let my employer know. I understand that sometimes there can be risks from a legal perspective but given the context I felt the risk was extremely low. Plus, it was none of their business. I'm still blown away that in this country
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by rubeng 15y ago
I built my startup while working full time at a corporate job. After a year and a half I quit because I was able to grow it to the point of where it was able to pay living expenses and support my family. Was it hard? Very. But there are man
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by rubeng 15y ago
The whole thing about TechCrunch being perceived as being so influential to the success of a startup is strange to me. TechCrunch doesn't make or break your startup. How you grow your business after the initial launch traffic dies down is w
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by rubeng 15y ago
Of course not. Customer data isn't something I would ever share. Companies that choose to do so will do it regardless of whether they're directly paid for it. It's not a tech problem and it's not something they need a 3rd party vendor for.
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by rubeng 15y ago
I don't see what's silly about the explanation considering it's about efficiency and performance. As a KISSmetrics customer I can tell you the focus is on funnels and key data; not on an internal cookie ID so that we can collude with other
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by rubeng 15y ago
It's all relative. Our family was considered poor when we lived in the US (as opposed to when we lived in Mexico). The first time I got a construction job that paid $8/hr I thought I had it made. This was low pay for construction workers bu
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by rubeng 15y ago
KISSmetrics specializes in funnel analytics, not helping advertisers. I'm surprised by the number of people making that assumption. I have a SaaS app and I use KISSmetrics to learn what sorts of things engage visitors and customers the most
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Using Facebook Ads to Get My Wife a New Job(extendslogic.com)
4 points by rubeng 15y ago|0 comments

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